Spell Reel (2017)

The first image is in black and white, upside down and projected into a black box that then becomes the frame. It now hovers like a time capsule near a man’s face. He looks down, listening in on a female guerrilla fighter and translating her words from Fulani. Within the capsule, money is counted and paid out as a new currency, the numbers of the years run backwards in the black box. A 16-mm film glides through the man's hands and is transferred to a laptop screen frame by frame.

• Release Date: 2017-02-12
• Runtime: 1h 36min
• Production Company: Spectre Productions
• Production Country: Guinea-Bissau, Germany, Portugal, France
• Director: Filipa César